Angus and Julia Stone win top APRA awards

The 2011 APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association) Music Awards took place in Sydney on Tuesday night.

Angus and Julia Stone won both the 'Songwriter of the Year' award and the 'Song of the Year' prize for hit single 'Big Jet Plane'. They have previously won an ARIA for the song and it has topped Triple J's Hottest 100 chart.

Jet scooped the 'Most Performed Australian Work' and 'Rock Work of the Year' gongs for 'Seventeen', while Megan Washington was named 'Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year'.

John Butler could not attend the event but won the 'Blues and Roots Work of the Year' award for track 'Close to You'. In a video link, he described songwriting as a "mysterious woman in [his] life".

Kasey Chambers picked up the 'Country Work of the Year' prize for 'Little Bird', Patrick Monahan, Amund Bjorklund and Espen Lin won 'International Work of the Year' for Train's 'Hey, Soul Sister', while AC/CD's 'Highway To Hell' was the 'Most Played Australian Song Overseas'.

Andrew Denton presented singer Paul Kelly with the 'Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music'. Earlier this year, APRA CEO Brett Cottle said that he wanted Kelly to win the prize because he "embodies every attribute and achievement that the Ted Albert Award seeks to achieve".

The event was hosted by The Chaser's Chris Taylor and Andrew Hanson, while performers included Darren Hayes from Savage Garden and Kimbra, who paid tribute to recently-split band Silverchair.

Watch the video for Angus and Julia Stone's 'Big Jet Plane' below: